TAXATION: Rich Men Scared

"The best client," Frank J. Hogan tells his friends in private, "is a
rich man who is scared." In Pittsburgh last week Attorney Hogan was
serving the best client of his career. Andrew William Mellon had hired
Washington's No. 1 criminal lawyer to play the desperate game which the
New Deal had forced upon the 79-year-old onetime (1921-32) Secretary of
the Treasury. The New Deal's stake: $139,045 and the reputation of its
Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, charged with forcing the game
for personal spite and political advantage. Mr. Mellon's...